Tripterosporella coprophila Subram. & Lodha, Curr. Sci. 37: 246 (1968)

MycoBank number: MB 340470; Index Fungorum number: IF 340470; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10138; Fig. 37f–g

Coprophilous Sexual morph: Ascomata cleistothecial, scattered, superficial, globose, black, membranaceous, surrounded by brown, septate hairs. Peridium membranaceous, composed of brown to hyaline cells of textura angularis to textura prismatica. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, clavate to cylindrical, pedicellate, apex rounded, with J- apical ring. Ascospores bi-seriate, cylindrical, aseptate and hyaline when young, upper cell(s) becoming swollen and ellipsoidal to subglobose, 0–1-septate, brown, with truncate base and an apical germ pore, collapsing when dry; lower cell(s) tail-like, hyaline, multi-septate, smooth-walled, slightly curved near the base. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Abdullah and Rattan 1978).

Known hosts and distribution – On dung of Bos taurus in India (type locality) and Iraq (Subramanian and Lodha 1968; Abdullah and Rattan 1978).

Notes – Tripterosporella coprophila has brown ascospores with ellipsoidal upper cell(s) and a long, cylindrical, hyaline, multi-septate pedicel (Subramanian and Lodha 1968; Abdullah and Rattan 1978). However, the septate pedicel was rarely mentioned in subsequent research (Abdullah and Rattan 1978; Doveri 2010). Tripterosporella coprophila is similar to Podospora, Lasiosphaeria and Zopfiella in having cleistothecial ascomata and multi-septate ascospores comprising two types of cells. We were unable to obtain the authentic material of this species, and therefore, we refer to Subramanian and Lodha (1968) for hand-drawing (Fig. 37f–g).

Fig. 37 Mammaria echino- botryoides: a–c (redrawn from Hennebert 1968; del Valle Catania et al. 2011). a, b Conidiophore, Chlamydospores and conidia. c Ascospores; Cladorrhinum foecundissi- mum: d (redrawn from Hyde and Goh 1999). d Conidiophore and conidia; Triangularia bam- busae: e (redrawn from Guarro and Cano 1988). e Ascospores; Tripterosporella coprophila: f, g (redrawn from Subramanian and Lodha 1968). f Ascospores. g Ascus; Rinaldiella pentago- nospora: h, i (redrawn from Crous et al. 2014). h Ascus.

i Ascospores. Scale bars: f–h = 20 µm, a–e. i = 10 µm